Unrequited:
Boy band meets girl
Seventeen-year-old Kat Hartland loathes Unrequited, the world's biggest boy band.
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She's 100 per cent immune to 'perfect' singer Angus Marsden and his unfailingly predictable lyrics. Show her the anti-fan club ... she wants to be its president!
Just give her a proper musician. Or maybe the seriously hot med student who rescued her on the train. Ideal formal partner, right? Ideal everything ...
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But when Kat comes face to face with Angus Marsden himself, things start to get complicated. Throw in a deranged female singer, an enraged fandom, final exams, a part in a musical and a mum who just doesn't get it.
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It's the literary equivalent of eating Tim Tams in your PJs on a Sunday afternoon. I loved this book!
Rebecca Sparrow
Tilly Maguire & the Royal Wedding Mess
Aspiring writer, 18-year-old Tilly Maguire, is a totally reformed ex-superfan of British boyband singer, Reuben Vaughan. Yeah, she was going to marry him when she was thirteen, but that fangirl phase is way in her past now, along with an unfortunate side ponytail and a weird obsession with galaxy leggings - ugh. Cringe!
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When her writing wins Tilly a six-week internship at a top London PR firm, she doesn't expect to stumble from a long-haul flight straight into an A-list debacle of her own making, but these things happen. She proves to the entire world that jet lag and social media definitely don't mix.
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Obviously, Tilly didn't intend to get tangled in a ridiculous scandal involving the British royal family. She's not the attention-seeking type! She's just a socially awkward introvert, with a galloping case of anxiety made even worse after a high-profile run-in with the very last person she ever imagined she'd meet for real.
Not on her gap year, anyway.
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And not like this!
Tilly Maguire & the Royal Wedding Mess
Aspiring writer, 18-year-old Tilly Maguire, is a totally reformed ex-superfan of British boyband singer, Reuben Vaughan. Yeah, she was going to marry him when she was thirteen, but that fangirl phase is way in her past now, along with an unfortunate side ponytail and a weird obsession with galaxy leggings - ugh. Cringe!
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When her writing wins Tilly a six-week internship at a top London PR firm, she doesn't expect to stumble from a long-haul flight straight into an A-list debacle of her own making, but these things happen. She proves to the entire world that jet lag and social media definitely don't mix.
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Obviously, Tilly didn't intend to get tangled in a ridiculous scandal involving the British royal family. She's not the attention-seeking type! She's just a socially awkward introvert, with a galloping case of anxiety made even worse after a high-profile run-in with the very last person she ever imagined she'd meet for real.
Not on her gap year, anyway.
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And not like this!
We live in a time of 'hurry sickness'. 'Busy' has become a competitive sport - and it's a sport with no winners.
But somewhere, underneath all of this hard slog, there are the things we really want to do. The things that bring us joy and give our lives meaning. More often than not, the only thing standing between us and getting on with those things is ourselves. Our lives don't have to be as complicated as we make them. Through stories, theories and practical exercises, I Don't Have Time explores 50 excuses we make that keep us from getting on with the things that really matter to us.
These are the excuses that hold us back in our health and wellbeing, our careers, relationships, finances, home environments, personal development and recreation.
Using humour, anecdotes, research into productivity and Emma and Audrey's proven 'My 15 Minutes' approach, this is a practical guide to ditching overwhelm and making progress in all the areas that matter most. It flips the notion that we need great swathes of time to get ahead with things, instead encouraging us to use the nooks and crannies in our day to achieve big things over time.
Wits' End Before Breakfast
'Wits End Before Breakfast!' is a riotous celebration of modern motherhood, from the first contraction to the last straw.
Mumma said there'd be days like this. It was all right for her - she wasn't trying to balance a full-time job with kids, university assignments and a Labrador puppy, not to mention writing a book about the uphill chaos that is twenty-first century motherhood and how hard it is to get through things - like each day, for example... ... and, on the other hand, how wonderfully rewarding motherhood can be.
Can we really have it all? Or is it all too much?
This book is for every working mother who wonders if she's doing the right thing - and how much longer she can keep on doing it. You'll laugh. You'll cry. And, most of all, you'll realise you're not the only one...
